Folk Art Carved Frame with Cabinet Card of Handsome Man with Umbrella and Stalagmite! Allamakee Pottery now empty of the nuts

now empty of the nuts

I didn't know what this was when I found it

and is nice and deep so as to be useful in the kitchen

and just went back to my source and grabbed two more

And she keeps reminding me of Velasquez portraits of the Infanta Margarita Teresa--las Meninas et al--and what could be better than that

Folk Art Carved Frame with Cabinet Card of Handsome Man with Umbrella and Stalagmite! Allamakee Pottery now empty of the nutsSold just as found, an old folk art standing frame with antique cabinet card of handsome young man in suit and vest and boutonniere, umbrella in hand and resting the other on what looks like a stalagmite but must be carved wood. I really like how the umbrella and whatever that is at his right form a triangle with his head at top, all pointing up toward the peak of the frame and altogether evincing a sort of vernacular holy trinity. With pinprick type